Edward knapp



(No Model.)

B. KNAPP.

RULING MACHINE.

Patented May 10, 1887.

Unirnn STATES EDlVARD KNA PP,

OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE D. BAR- NARD, OF SAME PLACE.

RULING=MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,892, dated May 10, 1887. Application filed November 1S, 1886. Serial No. 219,230. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD KNAPP, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Ruling-Machines, of which 5 the following is afull, clear, and exact dcscrip tion.

The improvement is a novel means for sup porting the extension pen-holders of a rulingmachine, substantially as is hereinafter de- 1 scribed and claimed, and as shown in the annexed drawings, making part of this specilication, and exhibiting the most desirable mode of carrying out the improvement, and in which 1 Figure 1 is a plan of a rulingmachine penbeam having the improvement. Fig. 2 is a view in perspective, the middle portion being broken away, of the peirbeam and its holder, the parts being detached from each other.

Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section, upon an enlarged scale, on the line of Fig. 1; and Fig.

i is a view in perspective showing detached from each other the parts used to connect the pen-holder with the pen-beam bearing.

The samelctters of reference denote the same parts.

A, Figs. 1, 2, 3, represents the pen beam; 13, the clamp; G, the pen-beam holder; and D, one of the extension pen-holders, all of which parts are of the usual form otherwise than as modified by the present improvement.

E represents a rod extending along and above the pen-beam, and at its ends held in the standards 6 e, or otherwise suitably held above the pen-beam in the position shown. Upon the red are strung a series of what may be termed holders, F, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 1. They serve to connect the extension pen-holders D with the bearing in such a manner as to pro-.

ends, and as the most desirable means therefor, the holders F are constructed as shown more distinctly in Fig. 4that is, perforated atf to pass onto and along and to be rotated vertically upon the bar, extended to the rear of the bar in the form of the split extension f, and furnished with the screw f'", to enable the k parts of the extension to be drawn together or opened apart,aud the holder thereby tightened or loosened upon the bar, and extended to the front of the bar in the form of the extensionf, to the under side of which the shank d of the holder D is clamped by means of the clip G and screw 9, Figs. 2, 3, 4c. \Vhen it is desired to adjust a pen-holder laterally or vertically, the scrcwf is loosened, the holder F, carrying the pen-holder D, shifted or turned upon the rod E, as required, and the screw f is tightened again. The vertical adjustment is indicated by the broken lines in Fig. 3.

The pen-holder D is adjusted longitudinally by slipping its shank d beneath the holder-ex tension f, and then securing the shank with the clip G and screw 9. Ifthe point of the pen is needed to be nearer the clamp B, the shank d is slipped farther beneath the extension f, and if farther from the clamp B the motion is reversed. The pen-beam A is secured in the pen-beam holder 0 by means of the plates a a of the pen-beam and the screws 0 e of the pen-beam holder.

I claim 1. The combination, in a ruling-machine, of the pen-beam, a bearing upon said peirbeam, and an extension pen-beam holder having a vertically-rotatable and a laterally-adjustable connection with said bearing, substantially as 8 5 described.

2. The combination of the rod E. the penholder D, the holder F, the clip G, and the screw 9, said holder F being perforated, and

having the extensionsf'f and screwf substantially as described.

3. The combination of the holder F, having the extcnsionf, the pen-holder D, and the clip G, and screw 9, substantially as described.

EDXVARD KNAPP.

Vitnesscs:

U. D. MOODY, N. B. ANDERSON. 

